Example Sentences

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I want to join the little ones, though I’m too old to do so unselfconsciously, so I inch closer and closer, when in walks a young man I’ve never seen before.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2021

I could wax poetic about Olivia Coleman’s unselfconsciously wicked stepmother or Kristin Scott Thomas recalibrating the definition of “scene stealer.”

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2019

Whereas Mason takes a resolutely old-fashioned approach by believing in historical fiction — a genre which trusts that the world and history may be seized unselfconsciously, without the author's formal uneasiness elbowing in.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018

Seldom do you get to see people physically reacting to art so unselfconsciously, and so purely — although it was tempting to project my own feelings and see it as an image of people suffering.

From Washington Post • May 25, 2017

I once heard him explaining vigorously and quite unselfconsciously to Marion what he thought ought to be done to people who stole food from house refrigerators.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt